One of the big keys for team success at the NCAA tournament is having a talented roster that can then perform at peak levels during the event. A tool available to assess the raw talent of the wrestlers is to see where they were ranked as high school prospects.

Here is a look at where the All-Americans were ranked during their senior year in the season-end graduating class rankings (NOTE: WC = weight class but not graduating class, NR = ranked in neither).

It is also of interest to note that of the five NCAA champions that Penn State had over the weekend, all were "can't-miss" recruits out of high school, the lowest being a pair ranked No. 7 in their graduating class (Jason Nolf and Vincenzo Joseph).